Social Science Japan Journal

General Articles:

Yoda Hiroe

New Views on Disabilities and the Challenge to Social Welfare in Japan
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 1-15; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.1 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Karen Nakamura

Resistance and Co-optation: the Japanese Federation of the Deaf and its Relations with State Power
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 17-35; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.17 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Davide Torsello

The Paths to Difference: Social and Economic Choices in Three Post-war Agrarian Settlements of North-eastern Japan
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 37-53; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.37 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher S. Jones

A Lost Tradition: Nishida Kitar, Henri Bergson and Intuition in Political Philosophy
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 55-70; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.55 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Survey Articles:

Sato Iwao

Judicial Reform in Japan in the 1990s: Increase of the Legal Profession, Reinforcement of Judicial Functions and Expansion of the Rule of Law
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 71-83; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.71 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kabashima Ikuo and Imai Ryosuke

Evaluation of Party Leaders and Voting Behaviour—an Analysis of the 2000 General Election
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 85-96; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.85 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review Essays:

Tani Satomi

How to Explain the Upheaval of Japanese Politics in the 1990s: Two Contrasting but Complementary Approaches
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 97-102; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.97 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hanns Günther Hilpert

Two American Views on Trade with Japan
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 103-108; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.103 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

Takaoka Mika

Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer, by Simon Partner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999, 334 pp., $19.95 (paperback ISBN 0-520-21939-2)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 109-111; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.109 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ito Masanao

Shwa Kin'y Kyk (The Shwa Financial Panic), by Yamazaki Hiroaki. Tokyo: Ty Keizai Shinpsha, 2000, 229 pp., 3,600 yen (hardcover ISBN 4-4923-7090-0)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 111-114; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.111 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Muramatsu Naoko

The Ritual of Rights in Japan: Law, Society, and Health Policy, by Eric A. Feldman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, xiv + 219 pp., $70.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-521-77040-8), $26.00 (paperback ISBN 0-521-77964-2)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 114-117; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.114 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patricia L. Maclachlan

NIMBY Politics in Japan: Energy Siting and the Management of Environmental Conflict, by S. Hayden Lesbirel. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998, 200 pp., $39.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-801-43537-4)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 117-119; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.117 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ishida Takeshi

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, by John W. Dower. New York: Norton, 2000, 676 pp., $29.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-393-04686-9), $16.95 (paperback ISBN 0-393-32027-8)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 119-122; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.119 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tanimoto Masayuki

Region and Strategy in Britain and Japan: Business in Lancashire and Kansai, 1890–1990, edited by Douglas A. Farnie, Tetsuro Nakaoka, David J. Jeremy, John F. Wilson and Takeshi Abe. London and New York: Routledge, 2000, xvi + 322 pp., $100 (hardcover ISBN 0-415-20317-1)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 122-126; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.122 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lisette Gebhardt

Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan, by Gerald Figal. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999, xii + 290 pp., $18.95 (paperback ISBN 0-8223-2418-0)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 126-129; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.126 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Shimazu Naoko

Kindai Nihon no Kokka Ks: 1871–1936 (The Concept of the State in Modern Japan 1871–1936), by Banno Junji. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1996, xvii + 250 pp., 4,700 yen (hardcover ISBN 4-00-002757-3)and Democracy in Pre-War Japan: Concepts of Government, 1871-1937: Collected Essays, by Banno Junji. London: Routledge, 2001, 200 pp., $90.00 (hardcover ISBN 0415228646)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 129-132; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.129 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Inaba Keishin

Prophets of Peace: Pacifism and Cultural Identity in Japan's New Religions, by Robert Kisala. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999, viii + 243 pp., $47.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-8248-2228-5), $21.95 (paperback ISBN 0-8248-2267-6)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 132-134; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.132 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ulrich Möhwald

Shakai Chsa no Kkai Dta: Niji Bunseki e no Shtai (Publicly Available Data from Social Surveys: An Invitation to Secondary Analysis), edited by Sat Hiroki, Ishida Hiroshi and Ikeda Ken'ichi. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2000, iv + 260 pp., 3,200 yen (paperback ISBN 4-13-052017-2)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 134-137; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.134 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mizuno Setsuo

HIV Kansen Higaisha no Seizon, Seikatsu, Jinsei (Health and Quality of Life of Medically Induced HIV Patients in Japan), edited by Yamazaki Yoshihiko and Seto Shin'ichir. Tokyo: Yshind-Kbunsha, 2000, 212 pp., 2,300 yen (hardcover ISBN 4-8420-6559-1)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 137-139; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.137 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kase Kazutoshi

A Time of Crisis: Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 191), by Kerry Smith. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center, 2001, xvii + 481 pp., $42.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-674-00370-5)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 140-143; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.140 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charles Weathers

Koy no Danryokuka to Rdsha Haken—Shokugy Shkai Jigy (Employment Flexibility and Temporary Workers: The Employment Introduction Business), by Goka Kazumichi. Tokyo: tsuki Shoten, 1999, ix + 375 pp., 8,000 yen (hardcover ISBN 4-272-31038-0)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 143-145; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.143 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ronald Dore

Gakk, Shokuan to Rd Shij: Sengo Shinki Gakusotsu Shij no Seidoka Katei (Schools, Public Employment Offices and the Labor Market in the Postwar Period: The Institutionalization of the Market for New School-leavers), edited by Kariya Takehiko, Sugiyama Shinji and Ishida Hiroshi. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2000, vi + 302 pp., 6,000 yen (hardcover, ISBN 4130562002)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 146-148; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.146 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Werner Pascha

Stock Market Capitalism: Welfare Capitalism. Japan and Germany versus the Anglo-Saxons, by Ronald Dore. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2000, xii + 264 pp., $60.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-19-924062-0), $19.95 (paperback ISBN 0-19-924061-2)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 148-150; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.148 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marie Söderberg

Japan's Economic Diplomacy with China 1945–1978, by Yoshihide Soeya. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, ix + 187 pp., $70.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-19-829219-8)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 150-152; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.150 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kashiwazaki Chikako

Migrant Labour in Japan, by Yoko Sellek. Houndmills, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave, 2001, x + 261pp., $69.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-333-80432-5)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 152-155; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.152 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hiraishi Naoaki

China in the Tokugawa World, by Marius B. Jansen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992 (Second printing, 2000), xx + 119 pp., $35.00 (cloth ISBN 0-674-11753-0), $14.50 (paper-back ISBN 0-674-00266-0)
Social Science Japan Journal 2002 5: 155-158; doi:10.1093/ssjj/05.1.155 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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